Transcriptional Activation of Arabidopsis Axis Patterning Genes WOX8/9 Links Zygote Polarity to Embryo Development

Developmental Cell

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 264-270

  Ueda, Minako ^a,b   Zhang, Zhongjuan ^a   Laux, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUXIN; PROTEIN WRKY2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL POLARITY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; WOX8 GENE; WOX9 GENE; ZYGOTE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; ZYGOTE;

ARABIDOPSIS; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 79751505690     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2011.01.009     Document Type: Article

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